# interpolation (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover interpolation. Page: Feed: --- ## [Intentional Anonymity](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/intentional-anonymity/) _2026-07-21 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Thoughts on anonymity, accidental and otherwise ## [Time Until Totality](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/time-until-totality/) _2026-07-14 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ A world map colored by how long until each location next sees totality ## [Why React Compiler Can Render Stale Data in MobX observer Components](https://littlepotato.me/posts/react-compiler-mobx-memoization/) _2026-07-13 · Beyond Coordinates_ A minimal reproduction of React Compiler caching stale JSX around MobX observer, why interior mutability conflicts with memoization, and the practical fixes available today. ## [SmoothLife](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/smooth-life/) _2026-07-09 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Conway's Game of Life generalized to a continuous domain, computed in WebGPU ## [Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans](https://wordsandbuttons.online) _2026-07-02 · Words and Buttons Online_ Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for about a year and, for the time being, am not planning to do so. The reason is that I’m working two jobs mid-war, and I… ## [Web Gaussian Splatting: Cesium 3D Tiles vs. SparkJS 2.0](https://littlepotato.me/posts/%E5%89%8D%E7%AB%AF%E9%AB%98%E6%96%AF%E6%B3%BC%E6%BA%85%E6%B8%B2%E6%9F%93%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88%E5%AF%B9%E6%AF%94cesium-3d-tiles-vs-sparkjs-2-0/) _2026-06-12 · Beyond Coordinates_ A technical comparison of Cesium's standards-based 3D Tiles pipeline and SparkJS 2.0's renderer-native, paged Gaussian-splat runtime. ## [Trail Running Stuff](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/23/trail-running-stuff/) _2026-05-23 · Ned In The Cloud_ This post has basically nothing to do with technology. If you’re looking for that stuff, check out the rest of (looks around) this whole site. I thought of this post while out trail running this weekend, and I didn’t have anywhere else to put it. I’m not going to start a totally separate website to post one page of stuff. Who knows? If this becomes a more regular thing, maybe I… ## [An Elastic Möbius Strip](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/mobius-strip/) _2026-05-17 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Möbius strips as a test problem for doing some real linear algebra in the browser ## [Developers Are People: The Psychology of Software Teams](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/11/developers-are-people-the-psychology-of-software-teams/) _2026-05-11 · Ned In The Cloud_ There is a stubborn myth in tech that good software work is mostly about tools, velocity, and individual brilliance. If the metrics look good and features ship on time, everything else is secondary. People will adapt. Teams will sort themselves out. Culture is nice to have, but the real work is the code. I don’t think that story has ever been true. In an upcoming episode of Day Two DevOps,… ## [Jet Plane Blues](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/04/jet-plane-blues/) _2026-05-04 · Ned In The Cloud_ Neditor’s note: When I wrote this a few months ago, I really wasn’t sure I was going to publish it. It felt too raw, too personal, and too self-pitying. I shared it with a friend, who gave me constructive feedback that boiled down to: Tech ate your life a bit. Time for a break, and to go touch some grass for a while! She was 100% right, and that’s what I did. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wBPpNeON57MQ) _2026-05-03 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [How to Set Up an Exchange Online Mailbox for OpenClaw](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/01/how-to-set-up-an-exchange-online-mailbox-for-openclaw/) _2026-05-01 · Ned In The Cloud_ I wanted to give OpenClaw its own mailbox in Microsoft 365 so it could read mail, send messages, and generally act like a useful automation agent without piggybacking on my personal account. The trick was doing it in a way that was secure, auditable, and constrained. After working through the options, I landed on a model that I think is the right fit for this kind of use case: Use a shared mailbox… ## [Actually Implementing AI](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/29/actually-implementing-ai/) _2026-04-29 · Ned In The Cloud_ There is no shortage of AI content right now. Unfortunately, a lot of it lives somewhere between breathless hype and thinly disguised marketing copy. Every vendor claims AI will transform software delivery, replace half your team, and solve all your operational problems if you just buy the platform and turn the crank. That is not how real implementation works. In this episode of Day Two DevOps,… ## [Zooming Aperiodic Monotile](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/zooming-aperiodic-monotile/) _2026-04-28 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ A (sort of) infinite zooming spectre aperiodic monotile ## [Commvault Cloud Expands to Google Cloud: Protecting BigQuery and Beyond](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/25/commvault-cloud-expands-to-google-cloud-protecting-bigquery-and-beyond/) _2026-04-25 · Ned In The Cloud_ Your workloads are probably spread across multiple clouds. That’s nothing new, but what I hadn’t heard before is that 84% of organizations are using two or more cloud providers for critical services. That’s not shocking, but I also didn’t realize the number was that high. Now you know me, I come from a cloud and infrastructure background. One of the things I quickly… ## [Rendering the Aperiodic Monotile](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/aperiodic-monotile/) _2026-04-25 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Rendering the spectre a chiral aperiodic monotile of Smith, Myers, Kaplan, and Goodman-Strauss ## [Line-Sweep Terrain Lighting](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/line-sweep-terrain-lighting/) _2026-04-19 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Terrain shadowing and ambient occlusion for web maps using fast horizon visibility ## [Open Source Malware, NPM, and the Risk of Helpful AI](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/14/open-source-malware-npm-and-the-risk-of-helpful-ai/) _2026-04-14 · Ned In The Cloud_ I don’t think most practitioners spend a lot of time worrying about malware hidden inside an open source package. We worry about vulnerable code, sure. We worry about breaking changes, unplanned upgrades, and the occasional dependency rabbit hole. But malware? That still feels like something that happens to someone else, somewhere else, through an obviously sketchy email attachment.… ## [The State of Platform Engineering and DevEx](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/13/the-state-of-platform-engineering-and-devex/) _2026-04-13 · Ned In The Cloud_ Platform engineering can be a slippery term because it means different things depending on where you sit. For some teams it means golden paths, paved roads, and internal platforms. For others it means the group that owns all the infrastructure glue no one else wants to think about. And somewhere in the middle is developer experience, which may or may not be a separate function depending on the… ## [Costa's Minimal Surface](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/costa-surface/) _2026-03-17 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Trying to untangle the parameterization of Costa's minimal surface ## [Rewriting My Website in Observable Notebook Kit](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/rewriting-my-website-in-observable-notebook-kit/) _2026-03-11 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ How I migrated this website from Idyll to Observable Notebook Kit ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sd3RqV11fTYX) _2026-03-10 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [Boy's Surface](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/boys-surface/) _2026-02-28 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Boy's surface, an immersion of the real projective plane in three-dimensional Euclidean space ## [Denali Terrain](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/denali/) _2026-02-08 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Cobbling together a 3D WebGPU terrain viewer ## [Passing the AI-900 Exam](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/02/04/passing-the-ai-900-exam/) _2026-02-04 · Ned In The Cloud_ As I mentioned in my planning for 2026 post, I wanted to get the AI-900 and AI-102 certifications from Microsoft as part of a larger goal of learning more about AI Engineering and being able to deliver Microsoft Training in that area. Good news! Last week I sat the exam for the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) certification and passed. I thought I would share my experience and what I did to prepare. ## [Visualizing Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/visualizing-sloan-digital-sky-survey-data/) _2026-02-01 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Visualizing 3.3 million galaxies and quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ## [Hess-Smith Panel Method](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/hess-smith-panel-solver/) _2026-01-25 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Using the Hess-Smith panel method to compute the aerodynamic flow around an airfoil ## [Multi-Scale Turing Patterns in WebGPU](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/multiscale-turing-patterns/) _2026-01-20 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Interactive multi-scale Turing patterns in WebGPU ## [Strange Attractors in WebGPU](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/strange-attractors-in-webgpu/) _2026-01-17 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Integrating and rendering strange attractors in WebGPU from start to finish ## [WebGPU Instanced Lines](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/webgpu-lines/) _2026-01-16 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ GPU-accelerated line rendering for WebGPU ## [Zoomable Multi-Layer Plots in Notebook Kit](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/plot-with-zoom/) _2026-01-13 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Interactive mathematical plotting in Observable Notebook Kit ## [Simulating the 2D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation in WebGPU](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/simulating-the-2d-kuramoto-sivashinsky-equation-in-webgpu/) _2026-01-10 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ The 2D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, a chaotic PDE modeling pattern formation in combustion fronts and thin films ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HZiPaoNTLe7m) _2026-01-09 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Beginning AI Engineering](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/01/07/beginning-ai-engineering/) _2026-01-07 · Ned In The Cloud_ Recently I’ve become interested in AI Engineering as a discipline. As an infrastructure guy, data science and analysis has always fascinated me, but I felt woefully unprepared to work with it. When I was in college, I took a course on relational databases and it left my head spinning. Building out a relational table design, worrying about normal forms, and writing SQL queries was not my… ## [Planning for 2026](https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/01/02/planning-for-2026/) _2026-01-02 · Ned In The Cloud_ Plans. What are these silly things we make? Each year I write a planning post for the coming 12 months for the sole purpose of having something to laugh at when the annum ends. As this has become a tradition, I see no reason to stop with 2026. What bold and completely wrong plans shall I make for the coming year? Stay tuned and find out. Things to Accomplish Doing things has never been a problem… ## [Perfectly Matched Layers for the Wave Equation](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/perfectly-matched-layers-for-the-wave-equation/) _2025-12-31 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ An quick application of Perfectly Matched Layers for absorbing boundary conditions ## [2025 Year in Review](https://nedinthecloud.com/2025/12/30/2025-year-in-review/) _2025-12-30 · Ned In The Cloud_ Welcome to the annual review for Ned in the Cloud! Believe it or not, this is the eighth installment of the “Year in Review” series. Frankly, I’m impressed with myself for having kept this up for almost a decade. Going back to that first post, my goals for 2018 are hauntingly familiar: Build a successful cloud practice Learn to program in Go or Python (or both!) Keep creating new… ## [Reflecting on Two Years of Yoga](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/reflecting-on-two-years-of-yoga/) _2025-12-27 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Contemplating where we're at after attending yoga pretty consistently for a couple years ## [Gauss–Seidel visually explained](https://wordsandbuttons.online/gauss_seidel_visually_explained.html) _2025-09-21 · Words and Buttons Online_ An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why does it work? And why, when you flip the equations, it suddenly stop working? You can now play and see. ## [Hello, Observable Notebooks 2.0!](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/hello-observable-notebooks-2/) _2025-08-03 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Kicking the tires of Observable's new notebook tooling! ## [Vault Provider and Ephemeral Values](https://nedinthecloud.com/2025/07/21/vault-provider-and-ephemeral-values/) _2025-07-21 · Ned In The Cloud_ In my last post about ephemeral values and write-only arguments, I showed how you could use the updated AzureRM provider to leverage the new azurerm\_key\_vault\_secret ephemeral resource with write-only arguments that have been added to other resources. But the AzureRM provider is not the only provider to introduce ephemeral resources and write-only arguments! Version 5 of the Vault provider also… ## [Write-only Arguments in Terraform](https://nedinthecloud.com/2025/07/15/write-only-arguments-in-terraform/) _2025-07-15 · Ned In The Cloud_ Ephemeral Values and Write Only Arguments Ephemeral resources were introduced in Terraform 1.10, but they were missing a key component. Write-only arguments are a new feature in Terraform 1.11, and they help to complete the goals of ephemeral resources. Ephemeral Values I’ve already written a whole post about ephemeral values, but allow me to summarize it here as well. Ephemeral values were… ## [Ephemeral Values in Terraform](https://nedinthecloud.com/2025/07/01/ephemeral-values-in-terraform/) _2025-07-01 · Ned In The Cloud_ Terraform 1.10 has introduced the concept of ephemeral values for outputs and input variables, and as a new object type. Before I dig into the details of how they work, first I think it’s important to understand the problem ephemeral values are trying to solve. We all know that Terraform state can contain sensitive information. After all, it contains all the attributes of each resource and… ## [Why learn about the golden-section search](https://wordsandbuttons.online/why_learn_about_the_golden_section_search.html) _2025-06-29 · Words and Buttons Online_ An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost. ## [How Mapbox Renders 3D Interchanges](https://littlepotato.me/posts/mapbox-3d-intersections/) _2025-06-23 · Beyond Coordinates_ An analysis of Mapbox's lane-level HD road data, elevation features, styles, and rendering pipeline for 3D interchanges. ## [Clifford and de Jong Attractors](https://rreusser.github.io/notebooks/clifford-and-de-jong-attractors/) _2025-05-16 · Ricky Reusser's Notebooks_ Clifford and de Jong strange attractors ## [C++ Concurrency Study Notes](https://littlepotato.me/posts/reading-cpp-concurrency/) _2025-03-19 · Beyond Coordinates_ A reading outline covering C++ concurrency, synchronization, atomics, parallel algorithms, and concurrent data structures. ## [Quadtrees and Collision Detection](https://littlepotato.me/posts/quadtree-and-collision-detection/) _2025-03-10 · Beyond Coordinates_ Designing a quadtree for spatial partitioning, range queries, and collision detection, with implementation tradeoffs in C++. ## [WebAssembly Study Notes](https://littlepotato.me/posts/webassembly-note/) _2025-03-05 · Beyond Coordinates_ Notes on WebAssembly modules, memory, JavaScript interoperability, toolchains, performance, and browser execution. ## [Understanding C++ Rvalue References and std::move](https://littlepotato.me/posts/rvalue-references-std-move/) _2025-03-03 · Beyond Coordinates_ How rvalue references, std::move, and move semantics improve resource management in modern C++. ## [On HashiCorp, IBM, and Acceptance](https://nedinthecloud.com/2025/03/03/on-hashicorp-ibm-and-acceptance/) _2025-03-03 · Ned In The Cloud_ I originally started writing this post as a detailed history of my relationship with HashiCorp, how it grew as a company, and its IPO in December 2021- which happened at the exact wrong time. After laying down about 750 words, I deleted the whole thing. Why? Because that’s not the post I wanted to write. This one is. A Year Of Acceptance For me, 2024 was a year of acceptance. I had to accept… ## [Notes on Natural Language Processing](https://littlepotato.me/posts/reading-note-nlp/) _2025-03-02 · Beyond Coordinates_ Books and an outline of notes on natural language processing. ## [Poor pigs](https://littlepotato.me/posts/poor-pigs/) _2025-03-02 · Beyond Coordinates_ Aren't we all just poor pigs? Touch too many sensitive words, and you might not survive either.